Days after requiring customers to log in to view tweets, Twitter has silently eliminated these restrictions. This implies you may open Twitter hyperlinks in a browser with out an account.

We at TechCrunch seen that tweet previews are unfurling in Slack and WhatsApp. Of us at Engadget famous that Twitter previews had been seen on iMessage as nicely.

When Twitter began implementing the login requirement, Musk stated that he took these “momentary” measures to forestall knowledge scraping.

“Momentary emergency measure. We had been getting knowledge pillaged a lot that it was degrading service for regular customers!” he stated in a tweet.

The corporate hasn’t made any official announcement about permitting customers to view hyperlinks if you aren’t logged in or given any particulars on what measures it has taken to cease scraping.

Twitter’s transfer comes a day earlier than Meta launches its personal text-based app referred to as Threads. Interstingly, Threads additionally briefly allowed customers to view posts on the net with out logging in earlier than pulling the hyperlinks. It’s probably that folks will be capable to see Threads posts with out an account when the app formally launches.

Over the weekend, Musk additionally put learn limits of 1,000 posts per day for unverified customers and 10,000 posts per day for verified customers as a measure to battle knowledge scraping. In a weblog submit, the corporate stated that this transformation has affected a “small share of individuals” and “results on promoting have been minimal.”